Device for preventing bottle-refilling



(No Model.)

W. H. PAYNE. DEVICE FOR PREVENTING BOTTLE REFILLING. No. 566,721.

Patented Aug. 25, 1896.

INVENTOR fy z WITNESS s:

UNITED STATES PATENT Enrica.

IVILLIAM H. PAYNE, OF CAMDEN, NEIV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO ZACI'IARIAII K. LOUOKS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR PREVENTING BOTTLE REFlLLlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 566,721, dated August 25, 1896.

Application filed May 25, 1895. Serial No. 550,638. (No model.)

To aZZ whom. it may concern..- 8, having a point or downward projection 10, Be it known that I, W'ILLIAM II. PAYNE, a the function of which is to limit the opening citizen of the United States, residing at Canimovement of the valve 11 from the seat 12. den, in the county of Camden and State of The guard 4 is preferably formed of glass, 55 5 New Jersey, have invented certain new and porcelain, or chinaware, but may be made of useful Improvements in Devices to Prevent metal, and should preferably be formed inthe Clandestine Refilling of Bottles; and I do tegrally. The ring 6 is conical on both the hereby declare the following to be a suffiinnerand outersides, and is, as shown, of such ciently full,clear, and exact description thereinclination and relative dimensions to the cup 60 10 of as to enable others skilled in the art to make 8 that any object thrust into the cup 8 through and use the said invention. the ring 6 is arrested, if rigid, and if flexible This invention relates to the protection of is bent upward. The valve 11 is guided to bottles against clandestine refilling; and it and from its seat 12 by guides or ribs projectconsists in an improvement upon the device ing inwardly in the part of the neck 1 or tube, 6 5 i 5 for which United States Letters Patent numso that the valve is always in concentric pobered 537,712 were granted to me on the 16th sition with the axis of the valve-seat, and a of April, 1895; and it consists in an improved clear passage for egress of fiuid and ingress form of guard to prevent access to the valve, of air is afforded on all sides of the valve and in an improved mode of guiding and govwhen the valve is open, which occurs when- 70 2o erning the motion of the valve to render the ever it is horizontal or slightly deflected thereautomatic closing thereof more certain and from in position for pouring. Notches or effectual. grooves 14 are formed in the edge and the up- The following is a detailed description of per and lower sides of the rim of the guard 4, this improvement, reference being had to the of less depth at the center than the groove 2, 7 5 e 5 accompanying drawings, in which as shown in Fig. 5, which provide a circui- Figure 1 shows a vertical section of a bottle tons passage for the entrance of air in emptyneck containing this invention. Fig. 2 is a ing the bottle, but do not permit of the introlike view of a tube, containing the device, apduction of any wire or other implement to plicable to a bottle-neck. Fig. 3 is a top view reach and unseat the valve 11. The valve 11, 8o of the guard. Fig. dis abottom view thereof. being guided centrally when open as well as Fig. 5 is a vertical section thereof in the plane when closed, cannot be unseated by inclining indicated by the dotted line a: a: in Fig. 3. the bottle into or above ahorizontal position. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of Fig. 5, showing The guard in this device differs from that in the groove or notch in the rim. Fig. 6 is a the patent above referred to in substituting 85 3 5 vertical section in the plane indicated by the a hollow cup 8 for the button, and the mode dotted liner y in Fig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a modiof securing the guard in the neck of the botfied form of the guard. tle or tube, and in the conical external form 1 represents the upper section of a bottleof the guard 5 also in providing a projection neck; 1, the lower section thereof. These 10 on the lower end of the cup 8, which pre- 0 parts are united by any known means, such vents the fouling of the valve by introducing as internal and external screw-threads engagadhesive liquid through the guard, and in the ing each other, or external screw-threads and notches 14 in the rim forming a circuitous a nut, or by segments of screw-threads interpassage through the groove 2, which, while looking with each other, and, when assembled it prevents interference with the valve, serves 9 5 for use, cemented together. An internal cirto admit air in emptying the bottle. cumferential groove 2 is formed between the Having described my invention, what 1 two parts. The rim 3 of the guard at is placed claim is- V in the said groove 2 before the parts 1 and 1 1. In a device for preventing the clandesare secured to each other. The guard 4: is tine refilling of bottles, a guard notched at mo formed with a stem 5, connecting it with the its upper and outer edge to provide circuitous ring 6, and bearing upon the lower end a cup air-vents therein and having an exterior inverted conical form, and an internal inverted conical form, a cup formed integrally there With, and adapted to prevent the undetected opening of a valve in a bottle-neck, and the ingress of liquid thereto, substantially as described. v

2. In a device for preventing the clandestine refilling of bottles,a bottle-neck, or sleeve adapted to be inserted in a bottle-neck, formed of two parts, having when assembled an internal circumferential groove, means of uniting the two parts, a valve-seat in one part, a valve fitted to close said seat, guides arranged to support said valve, when opened, in axial line with said seat, in combination. with a guard having a notched edge, adapted to hold purpose set forth.

WILLIAM H. PAYNE.

Witnesses:

C. R. MORGAN, Z. K. LouoKs. 

